If i did then why didnt they treat. Also coming up he is a green politician and he could become germanys next chancellor tonights we ask him about how he plans to win and has he found the new center of german politics because its nearly certainly hold positions of the policies used to hold the forests and that have become thought of germanys d. N. A. Like the fact that a social market economy is there to serve the people and that we dont want to die hard capitalism and that europe has to be the core aim of German Foreign policy. Viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome but we begin the day with europes judicial fist and a slug in the face or russian president Vladimir Putin today the European Court of human rights condemn. To russia for how it treated the late russian corruption whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky minsky died in Police Custody in 2009 the court said that russias decision to deny him medical care while in custody put magnitsky his life in danger he was arrested for alleged tax evasion after he exposed widespread tax fraud which implicated russian officials today the court ruled that russian authorities had had reasonable grounds to suspect magnitsky of being involved in tax evasion but it added authorities violated numerous rights when they deny and its medical assistance behind bars his death led to the u. S. Congress passing the magnitsky act which allows the government to freeze assets into ban visas of human rights violators around the world. Well will a European Court ruling change anything about Vladimir Putins russia let me pull in bill Browder Nelms are gay he was a friend for him and he was also his lawyer the lawyer who uncovered how russia was stealing money from investors since Magnitsky Death browder has led a campaign to stop russian fall he lobbied the u. S. Congress to pass the magnets kyak he joins me tonight from london but its good to see you again on the show russia has ignored all the rulings by the European Court of human rights which im sure you are aware of do you expect it to treat todays ruling any differently. Well the ruling is is significant most significant in the words that are in the ruling as opposed to what the consequences are the words in the ruling are very explicit they say that russia effectively murdered Sergei Magnitsky after torturing him and get it completely not giving him a fair trial and doing all sorts of other illegal things thats what the ruling says and and the reason why this is so important is not for the 34000 euro judgment that the family gets thats thats effectively de minimus and beside the point whats significant about this is that Vladimir Putin has hated the magnitsky act the the piece of legislation named after Sergei Magnitsky which freezes assets and bans visa visas hes hated it since it was 1st passed and hes been trying to spread misinformation and lies about Sergei Magnitsky in order to try to get it repealed and by having this judgement from a unanimous group of International Judges it completely ruins the russian governments Propaganda Campaign you successfully lobbied the u. S. Congress to pass the back in 2012 and united spoke earlier this year when you were here in berlin lobbying german lawmakers to do the same how are things looking at in your efforts to get the European Union and germany to get on board. Well so if at the end of last year the dutch government proposed an even magnitsky act to all the other members of the European Union after their proposal was put 1st put out there the German Government the french government various scan and even governments and other governments signed on and supported there however were several governments that dont support it hungary which is run by viktor orban who is a friend of putin apparently italy doesnt support it because of mr silva any another friend of putin and so to the extent that these other e. U. Member states dont support it theyve had to rely on some arguments not to have it and some of the arguments they rely on are the russian propaganda which have effectively been rubbish as of today by the European Court for human rights and so i believe that the to to the extent that there is dissent within europe some of that dissent and perhaps all of it will fall by the wayside as a result of this judgment but bill thats quite a statement youre making there youre saying that russian propaganda coming from the grammar has been so strong that it has convinced european lawmakers not sue so i know for this magnitsky act and youre saying that the ruling by the court today is going to have so much impact that its going to change that do you really believe that a ruling by the European Court of human rights is going to change the way that lawmakers are thinking. Well so its not so much lawmakers are thinking this these are officials in different governments and so what we have is most of the governments of the European Union are in favor of the magnitsky act the ones that are opposing it have to have good reason to oppose it and to the extent that theyre using fallacious arguments they can no longer use them because whether hungary is. Good bad or indifferent they have to respect the European Court of human rights this is not this is not an african country or a country like kazakstan or Something Like that this is hungry which is a sort of proper member of the European Union and so i do believe that that a judgment for the European Court of human rights stating the facts as it has should have a very Significant Impact on our Campaign Going forward we know that youve been investigating what happened to the money the disappeared when your Investment Fund was raided by the russians there has been a lot of speculation that some of that money actually landed in the coffers with the hands of u. S. President donald trump can you confirm tonight did that happen. I can say that based on all the evidence we have none of it went to donald trump however i can say that based on the evidence we have some of it went to Vladimir Putin and i can say that based on an exposure an expose in the Panama Papers that came out which showed that a man named surrogate role doogan whos a famous cellist and a very close friend of lattimer putin received some of the money and most people know sort of a role do going to be prudence nominee and so we can we can effectively say that Vladimir Putin was a beneficiary of the crime that surrogate magnitsky exposed and was killed over and thats why one of the reasons why Vladimir Putin is so worried about the magnitsky act because it applies to him personally and thats one of the reasons why hes made it such a high priority to repeal the magnitsky act and is it true talking about stolen money tax evasion to me ask you something about todays Court Decision the court said that russian authorities had reasonable grounds to suspect that Sergei Magnitsky was a tax evader they condemned the circumstances of the Police Custody but not the custody in itself what do you say to that. Well so i what i would say is that is a technical decision which can easily be overturned based on new evidence the problem is that the way the European Court for human rights works is that we submitted all the evidence for the decision in 2012 and we werent allowed to submit anymore evidence but since 2012 weve weve amassed a mountain of absolutely definitive evidence showing that Sergei Magnitsky had nothing to do with tax evasion that the reason he was arrested was in retaliation for his whistle blowing but we couldnt put that evidence into the court based on their own Technical Rules and so its absolutely clear to anyone who knows this case that survey magnitsky was arrested in retaliation for accusing Police Officers of committing this crime and in this decision saying that it was admissible for him to be arrested is based on an be unable to submit that evidence. Joining us tonight starts talk about that ruling coming from the European Court of human rights to get your bill always good to see you would present your time tonight thank you. Well it is being called a watershed moment in americas Opioid Crisis a court in the state of oklahoma has ordered the drug maker johnson and johnson to pay more than half a 1000000000. 00 for its role in an ongoing Opioid Epidemic thats already claimed thousands of lives the judge says that johnson and johnson was motivated by greed and johnson and johnson maintains everything that it did was legal the oklahoma case is the 1st of its kind to go on trial he could be a model for litigation in other states hes probably needed boxes son austin is one of 6000. 00 believed to have died from an opioid eva days since the start of the millennium a promising american footballer he died in his prime. Austin was living a nightmare the nightmare of Prescription Drug abuse now the 1st of thousands of lawsuits aimed at Holding Manufacturers and distributors to account has made it through trial Cleveland County district judge that borkman have said prosecutors have proven johnson and johnson helped create a public nuisance that would take decades to repair. Still today judge walker has affirmed our position that johnson and johnson motivated by greed and avarice is responsible for the Opioid Epidemic in our spirit johnson and johnson will finally be held accountable for thousands of deaths and addiction caused by their activities. The company was accused of flooding the market with painkillers and deceptively marketing them they denies wrongdoing saying its sales claims were backed by science it plans to appeal against the oklahoma courts decision. We have sympathy. For all who suffer. From substance abuse. But johnson and johnson. Did not cause the opioid abuse crisis here in oklahoma. Or anywhere in this country. The many more claimants disagree with the company with 2000 funnies getting caught in a high of late to this yet. Oh my next guest tonight is the journalist and author salman young as he wrote the hughley praised 2015 book dreamland the true tale of americas opiate epidemic its a nonfiction account of the drug marketing legal and illegal that led to the current addiction to pain killing pills that is blood in the United States sam welcome to the show i want to start of if i can by getting your reaction to todays ruling coming out of oklahoma. Well im its there was you know the 1st of its kind and so course where were all paying attention to it what its for both for other cases that are going to come down the pike and are many as your report said its hard its hard to tell its hard to tell too if this kind of award even though its much less than the state of oklahoma is looking for is going to be financially possible given the number of plaintiffs. For counties and native tribes and cities and states all across the country who are lining up to to sue major drug drug manufacturers and distributors and well see and if this this this this will award stands because they will kill it but its a major step up theres no doubt about it its one that everyone is looking through to see how the courts would begin to to try to apportion blame and in this disaster thats gone on now for 20 years in our country there are other wall suits as well and are these lawsuits are they changing anything in the United States. Oh the mere fact i think that they are happening is representative of a change when i was writing dreamland there were 3 lawsuits ok when the book came out after the book came out you began to see more and more and more lawsuits and now were up to 2000 so the mere fact that and the thing that there is the thing about these lawsuits is that they they are manifestation of a basic nature one of the central points of this epidemic with us at the center one of the central points of this up and demick is that this is a problem that has created private profits profits are occurring to. Drug manufacturers and drug distributors pharmaceutical industry and socialized costs so the profits are or local or private the costs are borne by by everybody primarily i would say by counties in america Counties Fund jails courts corners offices foster children agencies county hospitals libraries all of those agencies have been buckling under this under the strain of trying to support this so so these lawsuits are a kind of a visible manifestation of the central nature of the stuff the demick which is that this is a private the profits are private and the costs are socialized yeah its interesting because in oklahoma the attorneys wanted 17000000000. 00 from johnson and johnson defined rehab clinics for addicted patients for example the judge saying that that is not a drug makers responsibility and people around the world looking at this story going to be asking will whose responsibility in the United States isnt that. Its a good question on much or how to parse that out that issue certainly every county in america is seeing its drug treatment which is already slim overwhelmed most of the jails are are over when the jails have become almost a shock to Treatment Centers thats where a lot about extend up and so exactly how to parse this out i think one of the things that these next batch of lawsuits may try to have to address is exactly how this money gets you that will be whatever how so that will be a major question before counties before companies before states for some time to come because all across this country youre seeing. Public entities just struggling mightily with the cost of the something you know looking at a comparison between europe and the us here in germany reveals of any prescription require a new visit with your doctor and thats not the case in the u. S. Advertisements for Prescription Drugs is on a Level Television here and it is in the United States i mean the commercialization of medicine in the u. S. Is dramatic our law makers and doctors in the u. S. Are they looking to europe for guidance into why the Opioid Crisis has not happened here and why its happened in the u. S. I would say to some degree thats thats true i would say that by and large we became a culture that for which a pill was the solution to most of our ills and pain was certainly at the top among them and i would say that there isnt an attitude in the United States and maybe it exists to some degree in europe but im quite sure probably not to the extent it does err that we are ought to be allowed a life free of pain and i think this attitude was particularly robust in the past years maybe people are coming to a different idea right now but but but there was this attitude that we should be allowed in title to life free of pain and the doctors were the ones who are going to give us that and that also that we didnt have to be accountable for our own wellness and doctors had a pill these pills were deemed virtually non addictive even though their narcotics somehow we got that that that message we bought into that mess that doctors began to prescribe this stuff as if it were just like aspirin almost and i think overall though there was there are many factors that move into this there are pharmacy theres pharmaceutical culpability in this theres no doubt and doctors as well but i think also this is a story thats really also it in part about about americans and how we as a culture began to believe that we didnt have to be accountable for well on wellness what we ate and drank how much exercise we got and that we get wellness from from a pill yeah yeah the things you said i mean its disturbing and hopefully hopefully these lawsuits can help to bring a change sam quinones journalist and author of dreamland the true tale of americas opiate epidemic with his analysis of that Court Decision out of oklahoma today sam thank you we appreciate your time tonight. Well here in germany voters in 2 states will go to the polls this coming weekend to elect a new parliament so the results have the potential to give populous in the country and across europe one of the biggest boosts ever and heres what the polling is telling us right now is most likely its expected that the far right alternative for germany could emerge as the strongest Political Party in one or both of the 2 states this weekend but that is only half of the story the Environmentalist Green Party could also become a big winner the greens are already the 2nd Largest Party nationally now theyve traditionally had little support in the east of the country but in the state of brandenburg which is in eastern germany they now look set to double their share of the vote compared to the last Regional Elections back in 2014 its a similar story if you go down south to neighboring saxony where the latest polls indicate that the greens share of the vote will increased to double digits compared to just 5. 7 percent in the last election now those numbers could transform the greens in eastern germany from a fringe party to a force to be reckoned with green momentum as theyre calling it the coleader of the greens here in germany is even being talked about as a possible future german chancellor his name is robert havoc the w. s chief Political Editor called up with him on the campaign trail. This man cycling through small town saxony could well be on his way to succeed Angela Merkel as germanys next chancellor in recent months but harvick has taken his green party to new heights in the opinion polls they are expected to double their share of the vote in next sundays Regional Elections in the Eastern States of brandenburg and saxony a development that raises Big Questions about bigger ambitions. To my walking through the countryside here with the future chancellor of germany. But most of all you are walking next to a party leader who is campaigning in section of the brandenburg together with his colleagues at the beginning of the year everyone said sure you have a good opinion poll did you get all crushed in brandenburg in saxony and now the opposite could happen as germanys big 10 parties lose support the greens have been going mainstream. Are the greens the new center force of german politics. Your visits nearly certainly hold positions other parties used to hold deforestation that have become part of germanys d. N. A. Like the fact that a social market economy is there to serve the people and that we dont want to die hard capitalism and that europe has to be the core aim of German Foreign policy. The former rebel greens at ease with becoming establishment so again ready for chancellor. Its a fair question as weve been around the 20 percent mark for a while now but its too early for that opposition. In saxony the greens try to prove they are unafraid of the right wing populism that is dividing the country further north theyre aiming even higher whereas this side of the road here in saxony the greens are unlikely to significantly change the political game just across the road in the neighboring state of brandenburg the greens are well on the way into regional government. Here they have been able to score with focuses in the race to offer alternatives to the far right if tea party the tightly contested race between those posting for change and those promising the return to good old days sees the green zone as an anonymous a trained doctor up against the f. T. Parties m. P. s kind of bits an army veteran. Because we cannot afford to fail on our climate targets time and time again we finally need to get serious about meeting the 1. 5 degree target of the paris accord we only have a couple of years left to do that. A liberal leaning crowd feels the a protest too much over its rhetoric on migration. We have to openly address the problems people have and thats what the f. D. A. Is about we dont start fair is. The high hopes of the greens prove that the political battle in east and many is not simply about the rise of the far right its also about who might replace uncle america as have political era drools to a close you know sports can seem very political even when its not supposed to be just ask the members of one of sacks of these local Football Clubs when this legal team are beat leipsic is campaigning using its own banners calling for tolerance and harmony in its stadiums and in society now the club says it is not endorsing any party or candidate but its message is designed to stay with voters especially on election day. Party election posters have been filling up the streets of saxony for weeks the far right f. T. Are expected to do well in sundays election. But some of the plaque cards look slightly out of place theyre not from a Political Party but from blues legal Football Club be like posters featuring the coach and star players have been plastered around like beyond proudly declaring the clubs drive for diversity and openness its nothing to do with Party Politics they say these are just basic principles. And its not about Party Politics its about the values that we stand for in society respect tolerance openness diversity proudly in favor of an open society weve got 40 nationalities playing in our team our players live diversity we live it as a club the decision to take a stand is a recent development on the street as on social media not everyone has got the message. Its a big confusing i wasnt sure what it was about i thought it was about football though the club is keen to avoid indorsing any party the timing is no coincidence everyone has something to say had an election why shouldnt be. There are more than 300. 00 of the posters hanging across the state but its at the polling booth and not the stadium that sex in these near future will be determined. The day is almost done the conversation continues online to find us on twitter in the news or you can follow me a bright goth t. V. Dont forget to use our hash tag the day and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day well see you then everybody. In his whole working life toiling in the highlands who know his 45 year old antonio us. Just hours old tired would just give the order. Here in kentucky one miner after another contract black lung disease. Or say a more cases alien ever have an out of state. Leaving the victims to fend for themselves. 3000 next. Eco africa. Bigger animals attract a lot of attention but dont overlook these little flowers very endangered. And you can do something to protect them. Free Success Stories from south africa. 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